Voice doll rattle



Au 11, 1931-. M. COHN 1,818,306

VOICE DOLL BATTLE Filed Dec. 3, 1930 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 11, 1931 UNITED STATES MARY COX-IN, OF N EIV YORK, N. Y.

VOICE DOLL BATTLE Application filed December 3, 1930.

The present device relates to voice dolls and has for its object to provide a novel form of voice doll, in that a voice is actuated by shaking of the doll, which may be in the form of a rattle, while the doll is held in vertical position.

The voice elements are so constructed that the voice is not sounded by pressing the doll or by changing its position from horizontal to vertical, but by shaking the same when disposed in vertical or substantially vertical position.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings 1n which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of an embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation upwardly in section as to both body of the doll and the voice element.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33, Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 44;, Fig. 3.

The primary characteristic of the present invention is that the doll is combined with a voice element of peculiar construction in that the bellows through operation of which the voice is sounded, is held distended by a spring which, while light, serves to maintain the reed-carrying disk anr fabric of the bellows projected during ordinary movement of the doll body such for example, as a rotation thereof, but which spring is overcome when the doll body is reciprocated as when the body forms part of a rattle which is vigorously reciprocated by a child. To this end, the body of the doll is preferably constructed in the shape of a ball having an upper half 1 and a lower half 1:12, these two halves overlapping at their margins and being cemented together at 2. The head, arms and legs of the doll may be formed in any suitable manner, and may be secured to the body in any suitable manner. In the present embodiment, the head is formed ball shape, or two halves, the margins overlapping and being cemented together, the face half being indicated at 3 and the back-head half at 4. In the present embodiment, the

Serial No. 499,616.

arms are formed of spool-like elements 5 which may be held together by an elastic string 6 which passes through suitable apertures in the body as will be understood without further explanation. For example, the string 6 may pass up through an aperture formed in a neck-like extension 7 secured to the body member 1 and thence through an aperture formed in the base of the face member 3 and therein knotted at 6%.

The legs may be formed of a series of spool-like members 8 held together by an elastic string, 9, Fig. 4, and passing through the body member 150 as shown in said Figure.

The voice element consists of a disk-like base member 10 having a flange 10m bent about, and securing, lower marginal wall of a light fabric bellows 11.

The upper marginal edge of the bellows 11 is held between the annular edge of an apertured weight 12 and the marginal flange of a reed-holding disk 13. The reedholding disk may be enclosed within a flanged cap 1 having sound apertures 15. The reed 13a: may be of usual construction.

To the head of the doll may be connected an elastic loop 16 which may be grasped to shake or reciprocate the device. l/Vhen this is done the inertia of the apertured weight 12, and other members associated with the bellows 11 will serve to collapse the bellows against the tension of a light spring 1? disposed within the bellows within the member 10 and 12 and the spring will restore the bellows to initial position, thus causing action of the reed, as will be understood without further explanation.

The elastic cords holding the legs are not required to impose very substantial end pressure between the body and the leg members so that when the device is reciprocated, the leg members may move toward and from each other and the spool-like elements may thereby come into contact to have a rattle eifect.

It will be understood that various modifications may be made in the arrangement of the elements comprising the embodiment herein shown and described without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, by a light spring, I mean any construction which will serve to distend the bellows. If the bellows is of rubberized cloth, rubber or the like, the material itself, or the treatment thereof, will have the effect of a light spring, and this is contemplated in the claims.

\Vhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent being as follows:

A doll rattle comprising a body member, a head member and arm and leg members, the body member enclosing a light fabric bellows normally held distended by a light spring, a relatively light apertured weight disposed above the spring and having a passageway for air, and a reed-holding member disposed above the apertured weight, the spring being sufiicient in its action to hold the bellows distended during rotation of the body but insufficient to resist the inertia of the apertured weight when the body is reciprocated.

In testlmony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

MARY COHN. 

